Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-02-19

LIFE IN NEW YORK.
How the Republican Club Made Itself
Famous I'm = Night.
A MKxoRABLB DINNER AND rm PARTICIPANTS
sPRAKxRs WHO WEIR. NOT CALLED UPoN 10 sPRAx
SOME sPEcnfN LOCAL HEROES OF GOTHAM
Special Correspondence Of TIE EVENING STAR.
| NEW YORK, Feb. 1a
| The republican club OF this city is an assocta-
ton OF bright young fellows almost unknown In
political circles. They are witty, welldressed and
1mbued with an active party spirit. They are the
frfsky chfpmunks OF local politics who lie dormant
| in cold weather and who skip along worm FENCES
and bound over stone walls when autumn comes
and nuts are falling. On February IL the club
| was asleep, but on the next day it awoke 10 ma
itself famous. It had celebrated Abraham LID
coins birthday by giving the most memorable din
ner recorded In the history OF the party. The
festive gories OF the Union League club were wiped
walked Into prominence over the heads OF the
purse. proud Patrtcians who fancy their organEa-
Their success astonished everybody, but them
selves the most. At bound the club had proved
ITSELF worthy OF entering the lists with the noted
brated republican Enignfs.barring the one
with the white plu,ne-were there, armed
| out the local archers and the bowmen, to say
o. mns
Phea French. Frsd aiS SO Nike crespn, s6sd
others Of the Old Guard who have battied SO often
and SO braveiy against desperate odds, were mage
Ing centurians among the ESQ persons at the tables
were Jake Hess, Sol Smith, Jim Halves, John Ja-
| eobus. Cornell Van Cott Billy Townley and George
diers-men who shirk the heat, dust, blood and
strife OF the conflict, but who are apparently ever
It was great dinner however and great in
more respects than one 1t was the first dinner OF
the kind In New York for years where stars OF
once there was more than one Chauncey Depew at
Inc table Chauncey has been called an tntellec-
ton in the person Of Joe Hawiey. Frank Hiscock
gave as steady light as Alcyone. Ben Harrison
spaark5ed IKE Algol; Oglesby twinkled like Vega,
ana Henry Cabot Lodge resembled Sirius In The
cog days The brightest twinkler OF all, however,
GOV. FORAKER, OF OHIO.
His intellectual brilliancy recalled the glOres OF
| the lost star in CassiOpia. No political Tycho
| Brahe could observe its radiance without exhib-
| ittng GREATNESS interest. Astronomers through
out the country are already casting its orbit and
an Tvaiied only by that exercised By
Henry w. Grady at the New England dinner.
Prisms of pure wit made his trenchant logic and
| superb ei0quence 1r1descent The elect was In
tenstfed by his swapping eyes, graceful gestures
and resonant voice. The applause was spontane-
every hit was greeted with unbounded enthusiasm
| After Foraker came Harrison. His address drew
repeated encomiurns, but it lacked the proportion
speech, ike the speech Of Grady made in the same
room, may make its utterer a candidate for Vice
President, but HarrfsOn'S grafton can never make
| him candidate for President.
After Harrison came Chauncey Depew. BE was
| lucky In being two pegs away from the governor
or Ohio, and he was, as usual, unlucky In having
his best thrusts and stories mangled next day by
either the reporters or editors His best story was
Win 1ne tasers on Of
coach, passenger saw that the procession had
| left the road and was wabbling over dangerous
ground In an adjacent field.
"Here: where are you going?" he shouted to the
cOachman. "Y0ure on The road"
That's all right," was the reply. '.sure, in this
Depew'S speech stood In marked contrast to that
OF Frank Hlscock, which was grave and dignihed,
and sounded like prearranged echo from the
GLORIOUS DICK OGLEsBY.
rip-roaring, old-fashtoned, brass-mounted ad-
dress was that OF GOV. OgleSby, OF Illinois Uncle
Dick wore big spectacles and an ant1quated broad
cloth suit His bald head glistened as he became
warmed with the fervor of his eloquence. He
pounded the table until the glasses tingled again
and again. Then he began to NOW a swath to
his left. He grew so demonstrative that he forced
senator Aldrich and Speaker Hustled back to the
wall TO escape the sweep OF his arms. AS after
another fell back, the guests screamed with
them delighted with his quaint western way OF
talking, but when even Jimmy Hustled turned tail
blizzard of eloquence, the old general stumDled TO
the racket" and thereafter held himself in bounds
Henry Cabot Lodges remarks were as colby
classic as some OF George William Curtiss' efforts.
He did not seem to sympathize with Joe Hawley's
assaults on the men who killed Blaine He seemed
glad to have escaped the tate OF the prodgal son,
however. Employment as sw1neherd is hardly
in his line, and he was evidently looking for
ratted calf. After abusing the administration and
| der, he sQuatted once more in the family rocker
with folded arms and placid face, animated by
| This dinner was made all the more remarkable
by the presence OF many great men, who were not
| invited TO speak. Among them were ex- Cows Fem
Plat, GOV. Beaver, OF Pennsylvania; WhiIelaw
Reid, VIM. Nj. EvartS, Noah Davis, Stephen B.
EiAns, Enhu Root, James Arkel, John A.Sletgher,
Geo. II. Sharpe, Stewart L. WOOdlOrd, and Levi NJ
| Bates The applause over the reading of letter
from James q. Blaine was deafentng, but not so
Again, say that It was a great dinner but
neither as great nor as remarkable as it would
have 6een II Roscoe Conkliag and Robert G. Inger-
| soil mad been present. And both were in the city.
| LOCAL HERO OF GOTHAM.
! The death Of Larry O'Brien caused more talk in
New York than the taking of Of John A. Lo-
gan. There is something curious about the in
terest the town takes In the life OF q local hero
eam6e Ma ana ranner s aod Do
| one end Of the island to the other. He seemed to
! have all the qualities which win admiration In
what might be called in the surface society OF New
| York. He had one distinction, which is very
| highly priced by men OF his kind. Like the late
| James w. MOrr1Sey, he was great 'sbar room
/ tighter" and the battles that he won were spoken
| OF by the habitues or bar rooms and cafes with
bated breath. Bar room fighters are men who
| have particular and openly expressed contempt
ior professional pugllists OF whom they speak as
.ooking glass fighters 1t is special delight OF
the sport 70 lick man who has a reputation in
the ring and the fearesSness and pluck OF the av-
erage bar room fghterts beyond question. O'Brien
| showed his nerve In many instances. The
| last one that remember was his attack on Pete
Mccoy, the middle weight pug1list, one night three
| years ago at the Madison Square garden. Mccoy
had national reputation as hard hitter was
In perfect training and known to be man OF high
| courage. He was bigger, stronger and
| younger than OBrien but the latter Jumped for
| him nevertheless and had him well in hand when
| the men were dragged apart.
| Larry OBTen loved Broadway. After he had
| been cut half TO pieces by Truman he was con-
fined long while in the hospital, but as soon as
| he was able to walk he crept out on Broadway
where he used TO move feebly about in the sun
| attended always by his devoted friends. He was
then as pale as corpse, his arm was in q sling
and his general condition pittable. The true story
| or his quarrel with Truman has never been pub
uShed and probably never will be by any repu.
table paper, because 1t involves the name OF one
OF the most generous and popular OF men and OF q
woman who Is universally esteemed
| TWO OTHER rAMOrys SpopTo